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When you retain a lawyer to represent you in a lawsuit or other legal matter, you have the reasonable expectation that the attorney will protect your interests and carry out their professional responsibilities to you with due care. Certainly, you should not have to...
There are numerous occupations that have developed to include professional agents to negotiate contracts and generally represent someone’s interests in their working relationships. These include athletes, musicians, actors, writers and others. The legal relationships...
Cases involving professional malpractice claims in Jacksonville will often refer to examples of alleged conflicts of interest. The reason why this principle is so often cited is due to the duty that a professional practitioner owes to his or her client. In the case of...
It is often said that there are only inevitabilities in life: death and taxes. Given the complexities associated with the latter, you might actually prefer the former. This is why you hire someone (such as an accountant) to prepare your return every year. Yet it is...
When one hires an attorney in Jacksonville, he or she does so with the expectation that said attorney will utilize every available resource to support his or her representation. However, an attorney can only work with what he or she has been given, and one of his or...
There are multiple reasons why personal injury legal malpractice can be an especially hard issue for many people to work through. First of all, many people who are in this position are already struggling with problems related to their injury. For example, someone who...
Professional malpractice takes a myriad of forms and our law office has discussed many different examples of malpractice on our blog. From malpractice that takes place during the probate process or malpractice involving real estate transactions or a personal injury...
You have made it through law school, clerking jobs and internships and now you are a full-fledged attorney ready to make your mark in Florida law. One of your first decisions is likely to be whether to be whether or not to carry malpractice insurance. Although the...
No one hopes to experience complications following any type of medical procedure in Jacksonville, yet if and when you do, your first thought may be that your doctor or surgeon is guilty of medical malpractice. That may in fact be true in many cases, yet it could be...
If you have ever read a contract or another legal document, you know they can be hard for the average Texan, who is not an attorney, to understand. Liberally strewn with professional lingo (legalese) and confusing words like heretofore, aforementioned and herewith,...